Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The Cult of the Military

From Berkeley to Washington to one’s own family, there’s no escaping the Cult of the Military.

Donna Saggia explained it well in an article published on Counterpunch last fall:

The “troops” have become the “human face” of the military-industrial complex and the moral camouflage for the administration’s war agenda. For this reason, “support the troops” represents an essential dilemma and denial within American culture. Were we to look beyond these human faces, we would have to confront the reality they stand for: the military as an institution that has grown to monstrous proportions, endangered our security by conducting unjust wars, robbed us of our children, squandered our taxes on obscene war technology, and protected the interests of greed-driven multinational corporations.

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